The answer is yes and no, depending on whether you've applied the patch. To cut a long story short, you may want to check out:
http://www.microsoft.com/hk/hkscs/ On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:50:24 -0500 "Tex Texin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: texin> Unicoders, texin> I am sure there is a simple answer, but at the moment I am confused. texin> texin> On Windows 2k with default locale "Traditional Chinese" and input locale texin> "Chinese (Taiwan)" and using the texin> "Chinese Traditional - Quick" method, users can enter Characters with texin> the code points: texin> texin> 0xFA44 0xFA41 0x916F texin> texin> These values are outside the range of codepage 950. texin> texin> So a subsequent conversion to Unicode fails, as these values are also texin> not in the Microsoft mapping tables to Unicode. texin> texin> The characters represent things such as: texin> 0x916F for Quarry Bay in Hong Kong Island texin> another is a character for a Island in Macau texin> texin> texin> So my questions are: texin> a) Is win 2k using an extended version of 950? texin> b) Is the Trad. Chinese input method generating characters outside 950 texin> or perhaps generating 936 values? texin> c) Perhaps these characters are in the HKSCS extension and there is a texin> 950 +HKSCS code page? texin> texin> Anyway, my goal is to insure that users can input any character the texin> input method supports, bring it into an application in the native code texin> page, and map it to unicode. To do that I need a consistent definition texin> for the code page. texin> Any clues? texin> texin> tex texin> texin> texin> texin> -- texin> ------------------------------------------------------------- texin> Tex Texin Director, International Business texin> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1-781-280-4271 texin> the Progress Company Fax: +1-781-280-4655 texin> ------------------------------------------------------------- texin> For a compelling demonstration for Unicode: texin> http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example.html texin> -- Y M Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
